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How to use cheese in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, interjection

Cheese means a dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk. Example: “These cheroots are the real cheese.”

Examples of cheese by meaning

nounA piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

  • He had a gloating expression on his face, and was perseveringly rolling a large cheese along the middle of the road.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 153
  • In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.2015 August, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal, volume 47...

nounThat which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.

  • It's time to add some cheese to this action burger!2012, Katrina Hill, Action Movie Freak, page 117
  • A film ostensibly about the lead singer of a hair metal band killing innocent people on a future planet Earth, Alienator is the epitome of low-budget cheese.2012 June 18, Ryan Lambie, “10 delightfully cheesy 90s sci-fi movie trailers”, in Den of Geek!, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2017

nounA mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.

  • The edges of the cloth are folded over the pulp forming a cloth-bound bed of apple pulp, called a 'cheese' as it resembles the European-style bound cheese.2011, P. Rutledge, “Production of Non-Fermented Fruit Products”, in D. Arthey, P.R. Ashurst, editors, Fruit Processing, →ISBN, page 77

verbTo smile excessively, as for a camera.

  • Exploded through the bar with three sacks of convenience store chicken, cheesing from ear to ear.2020, Bryan Washington, Memorial, Atlantic Books (2021), page 189

nounThe correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.

  • These cheroots are the real cheese.

verbTo stop; to refrain from.

  • Cheese it! The cops!

verbTo anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

  • All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.

verbTo use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.).

  • You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.
  • The term cheesing is also pretty common.1993, Alex Werner, alt.games.sf2 (Usenet)
  • Find out where your opponent cheesed himself up and hit him there with everything you've got.2000, cyber...@my-deja.com, rec.games.miniatures.warhammer (Usenet)

More sentences with cheese

  • We’ll throw it in just to make the cheese more binding.From the entry bind
  • You can have plain green beans, or gussie them up with a bit of cheese and onion.From the entry gussy up
  • Can you go and buy some yoghurt and blue cheese from the dairy?From the entry dairy
  • This is true Parmesan cheese — it is from the Parma region.From the entry true
  • Milly couldn't stand sharp cheeses when she was pregnant, because they made her nauseated.From the entry sharp
  • Q: What kinds of cheese do you have? A: We have American, Swiss, cheddar, provolone, or wiz.From the entry American
  • Hello my flower, shall I fix up a cheese sarnie for you?From the entry sarnie
  • We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.From the entry salad
  • I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.From the entry grate
  • Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes.From the entry toast
  • Too bad this cheese likes to stick to the pan and ruin the whole meal.From the entry like
  • How much (cheese) is left in the fridge? - This is how much we've got left.From the entry how much
  • I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.From the entry selection
  • The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.From the entry heave
  • I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.From the entry slice
  • Give me a ham and cheese sandwich on a torpedo roll.From the entry torpedo roll
  • Give me a ham and cheese sandwich on a bulkie roll.From the entry bulkie roll
  • She took the cheese out of the refrigerator and inspected it for mold.From the entry mold
  • I cannot believe that you cut the cheese at the dinner table!From the entry cut the cheese
  • He’ll be meeting with the big cheese first thing tomorrow, to present his proposal.From the entry big cheese
  • She made a kind of polenta from cornmeal and chicken broth, with some cheese sprinkled on top.From the entry cornmeal
  • I love cheese on toast, but I won't eat cheese on its own.From the entry on one's own
  • The entire wheel of cheese is a leftover from the party.From the entry leftover
  • The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop.From the entry inventory
  • There's a pretty big difference between American cheese on white bread and sharp cheddar on French bread.From the entry white bread
  • This is one of the best cream cheeses I have ever tasted!From the entry cream cheese
  • I'm really cheesed off about the lack of hand dryers in this washroom!From the entry cheesed off
  • I topped my chili with grated cheese and my mango soufflé with grated orange rind.From the entry grated

Meaning of cheese

  1. noun A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
  2. noun Any particular variety of cheese.
  3. noun A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

Full definition of cheese

Questions about cheese in a sentence

How do you use cheese in a sentence?
Cheese is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “These cheroots are the real cheese.”
What is a short sentence with cheese?
“Cheese it! The cops!”
What does cheese mean?
Cheese means a dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cheese (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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